Canon's mirrorless system camera: first picture!

Started 10 months ago | Discussions thread
Mattoid
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Re: Flange focal distance.
In reply to ageha, 10 months ago

ageha wrote:

Mattoid wrote:

I hope the flange focal distance is less than e-mount (18mm) that way existing third party manual e-mount lenses could be used with an adapter. If it is longer then E-mount will have an advantage in that regard. But comparing the mount picture to my 550d mount I'm estimating that the ffd is 16mm which is promising.

Canon waited till all hands were shown so it really would make sense for them to have the shortest flange distance.

That doesn't even make sense. 2mm isn't enough for an adapter.

Looking at the metabones e-mount to ef adapter, although the e-mount bayonet extends more than 2 mm, it looks like ef mount is wide enough to have emound fit inside it. I think 2mm should be just enough for it to work. I'm sure someone here with an e-mount lens could test whether it will fit inside ef mount with enough room for a metal housing. until now it was pointless to even wonder.

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